Rod Hower via EV wrote: >>>> The article talks about enough power for a Tire Monitoring >>>> Pressure System, which requires milliAmps to power the sensor >>> >>> Correct. However, following the main article, Bruce's post references 3 >>> more articles, all of which suggest that energy recovered from >>> flexing tires could somehow be used to charge an EV's battery.
Alas; that's modern journalism at "work"... I will say that it would be great if there was *some* method to eliminate the expensive periodic replacements of the TPMS senders because their battery ran down. It is idiocy / flagrant profiteering to require that the tires be removed to replace them! -- Excellence does not require perfection. -- Henry James -- Lee A. Hart http://www.sunrise-ev.com _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
